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Aaron Sorkin has e-mailed me with a response to this article which appeared in the New York Post on Friday, November 30. His message appears here unaltered and unedited: Paul,
I hope this finds you well. Below is one of the many pos...

Yeah, I'm pretty tired of beating up on Aaron Sorkin, and it's a drag when one of your heroes falls of his pedestal (or is "jumped" the right verb?). But we're going to be reading and hearing a lot about Mr. Sorkin in the weeks ahead, a...

Apparently it was Pablo Picasso who surmised that "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and I suppose that little play on words is true more often than not. But in the case of "The Farnsworth Inventions" -- which has recently been revi...

Now theater goers in Australia can hear Aaron Sorkin's twisted take on history, where "priority of invention" is awarded to the guy who actually LOST the case.
Thankfully theatre goers will have a little help keeping track of proceeding...

(The La Jolla Playhouse "page to stage" workshop production of Aaron Sorkin's The Farnsworth Invention wrapped up its run on Sunday, March 25; with that in mind, what follows should really be read as "past tense.")
In an open discussi...

Finally, somebody comes right out and asks the question that I've been asking for like three years now:What is going on with this man? Here's a guy who battled drug addiction and got busted at the Burbank Airport for holding. He's been i...

Nothing in this particular item about a Spielberg/Dreamworks interest in The Farnsworth Invention, but it does call for three screenplays, and near as we know the film rights for that one are still up in the air...
Aaron Sorkin has sig...

"Every man is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
1. The Widow and the ScreenwriterIn July 1993, a young playwright and screenwriter named Aaron Sorkin flew from Los Angeles to spend the b...

The reviews of The Farnsworth Invention are pouring in almost by the hour now. Here are links to the most recent, and a "money quote" from each one:
The Chicago Tribune (Chris Jones): Boy, this is a jumpy piece of writing. It feels ...

Hollywood may finally be taking notice of Philo T. Farnsworth. As
some of you may recall, when Aaron
Sorkin stepped down as
executive producer of NBC's The
West Wing back in the spring of 2004, he announced that his next project
w...